"I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what anybody else has to offer therefore has to be true."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Mean Quotes #Want Quotes #Matter Quotes

“To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.”
“Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.”
“All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making.”
“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.”
“I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.”
“Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.”

Source : "Same-sex marriage debate: A model for other issues" by Mark Udall, www.politico.com.
“I'm healthy and excited to play. And I think this year can be a big year for me if I get the opportunity. I can still play the game. I think I can help a team get to the Super Bowl.”
“Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.”

Source : Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia

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